Let Herr Merkel build it, she just won’t do it with US materials or help and when Ivan decides he wants something he can turn the damned thing off in the middle of a January blizzard.
The US seriously needs to reexamine it’s role in NATO, is it strategically worth it? Should we help Poland and England, yes, but Germany, France and most of the western Europeans clearly resent us being there, so lets pack up those bases and disperse them in the Pacific where they are clearly needed.
Exactly, France and Germany keep floating the idea of an EU army. The Pacific is an area of more strategic interest than central Europe.You need an economy to have a military. Germany has decided to fund the Russian military with gas purchases. Of course with Merkel’s childhood influenced by living in the German Democratic Republic, she probably has a fondness for seeing Russian armies on German soil. With Turkey turned into a fundamentalist dictatorship, and Russian having an economy to rival Italy’s, It’s past time to reexamine NATO. But Germany, France, and Turkey, the major military powers other than the US in NATO no longer are Allies in the classical sense.